A second series of useful hints for labourers; selected from the publications of the Labourers' friend society |
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... young persons are liable , probably proceed from the acid formed in the stomach from their indulgence in sweet things . The cheapness of this delicate jam is astonishing ; at the expense of ninepence or tenpence they might provide their ...
... young persons are liable , probably proceed from the acid formed in the stomach from their indulgence in sweet things . The cheapness of this delicate jam is astonishing ; at the expense of ninepence or tenpence they might provide their ...
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... young plants are : the breadth of half a crown or so , let them be thinned . out and put into a nursery bed ; this not only affords . more space to the weaker plants , but checks the too vigorous growth of the stronger plants , and ...
... young plants are : the breadth of half a crown or so , let them be thinned . out and put into a nursery bed ; this not only affords . more space to the weaker plants , but checks the too vigorous growth of the stronger plants , and ...
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... young onions are to be planted . When the ground is ready , open drills , six inches apart and three inches deep ; let the plants be carefully taken from the seed - bed , and laid into the drills , at about four inches asunder . Let ...
... young onions are to be planted . When the ground is ready , open drills , six inches apart and three inches deep ; let the plants be carefully taken from the seed - bed , and laid into the drills , at about four inches asunder . Let ...
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... young cow , one that is about to calve , or has just calved ; and at this time such a cow as you want will not cost more than 57. The thirty- six rods , if the cabbages all stood till they were solid , will give her food for two hundred ...
... young cow , one that is about to calve , or has just calved ; and at this time such a cow as you want will not cost more than 57. The thirty- six rods , if the cabbages all stood till they were solid , will give her food for two hundred ...
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... young fruit would wither . By this simple means , the fruit , by receiving more light and air , as well as a greater portion of assistance from the tree , will swell to the greatest perfection . Should other superfluous branches shoot ...
... young fruit would wither . By this simple means , the fruit , by receiving more light and air , as well as a greater portion of assistance from the tree , will swell to the greatest perfection . Should other superfluous branches shoot ...
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Página 143 - ... He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Página 98 - I found this countryman was a member of our Artisans' Library, and every Saturday evening he walked over to the town to exchange his books. I asked him whether reading did not make him less satisfied with his daily work; his answer deserves universal attention : — " Before he read, his work was weary to him ; for, in the solitary fields, an empty head measured the time out tediously, to double its length; but, now, no place was so sweet as the solitary fields: he had always something pleasant floating...
Página 84 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Página 65 - Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Página 146 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 52 - Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy.
Página 83 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 143 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 118 - Punctuality is important, because it subserves the Peace and good Temper of a Family : The want of it not only infringes on necessary Duty, but sometimes excludes this Duty.